{"id":28294,"date":"2012-06-15T06:25:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/would-you-like-a-little-cheese-with-your-whine.html"},"modified":"2012-06-15T06:25:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:25:15","slug":"would-you-like-a-little-cheese-with-your-whine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/would-you-like-a-little-cheese-with-your-whine.html","title":{"rendered":"Would you like a little cheese with your whine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another article noting that, to at least some degree, one's knowledge about a wine influences what one think of it when drinking. Almost certainly true. But it also points out that wine tasting is subjective and idiosyncratic, and what one likes<\/i> in a wine is both variable over time and difficult to accurately and objectively compare to what someone else likes in it.<\/p>\n

So, yes, you can drink a very satisfactory bottle of wine that retails or $8. \u00a0You can also find a lot of crappy wine (defined as "wine you don't like") that retails for $8. \u00a0I end up doing both, because I like wine but am not going to open up a $30-50 bottle every night.<\/p>\n

That said, while I have a nice little wine cellar, I have faith that it's good wine because it's wine I've liked in the past — from wineries and labels whose wines I've enjoyed. \u00a0I do like to break out the bottles for guests, not to impress but to share. \u00a0Is its distinctiveness just illusory, and do people hypothetically like it better because<\/i> it's from my wine cellar than if I spigoted it out of a box? \u00a0Perhaps — though if it's giving them joy and pleasure, then maybe that's a good investment (silver and fine china don't actually make food taste better, either, but …)<\/p>\n

But I'm not convinced that "all wine tastes the same" or that all wine is roughly the same quality. \u00a0That it's a subjective game for each tester? Sure. That label and expectation and heritage can color tasting? Makes sense. That the correlation of cost to quality is profoundly weaker than wineries and wine snobs would like you to believe? Certainly. But I know what I like, and I like it.<\/p>\n

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Another article noting that, to at least some degree, one's knowledge about a wine influences what one think of it when drinking. Almost certainly true. 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